“We don't have a shortage of nurses in this country. We have a shortage of nurses willing to practice in the healthcare environments as they are today,” says Rebecca Love, an educator, innovator and leader who has devoted her career to improving the profession of nursing from multiple angles. She’s currently pursuing one of those efforts as chief clinical officer at IntelyCare, an app which smooths out the scheduling process for nurses looking to pick up extra shifts. “We created a platform that allows nurses more of a credentialing passport to work anywhere they want, when they want to.” Love is also involved in a broader effort to change how nurses are paid, correcting an historical artifact of their services being included in the daily rate of a hospital room instead of being billed as a separate service, as she explains to host Michael Carrese. “Nursing is still the only healthcare profession that does not have a billable service which makes them a cost center to hospitals and as long as that’s the case, healthcare systems are never going to invest in anything to make the lives of nurses better.” Tune in for a powerful perspective shift on one of the biggest challenges facing healthcare today from a leading advocate for the nursing profession.

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